Yep
Mixed species exhibit ideas
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Yes, but you'd have to be careful with the zebras. Grevy's is well documented to be problematic in mixed exhibits.
100% no - the size difference would no doubt incline the vampire bats to feed on the fruit bats. Vampire bats also prefer different habitat setups than the fruit bats do.
I assume the answer is yes, but would it be too risky to have Crab-eating raccoons in an open enclosure in a greenhouse with free-roaming ducks and ibises?
If they’re anything like as ingenious and as predaceous as their Northern relatives, the Racoons will eat all the birds
Kob and Lechwe is cool
Why did you say this and then quote a passage which says that they are omnivorous and feed on vertebrates amongst other items?
"The crab-eating raccoon eats crabs, lobsters, crayfish, other crustaceans, and shellfish, such as oysters and clams. It is an omnivore and its diet also includes, for example, small amphibians, fish, insects, small turtles, turtle eggs, fruits, nuts, and vegetables."
The study linked by Wikipedia mentions:
Neither the study nor wikipedia mentions birds, it even mentions specifically only small amphibians and small turtles. Their diet would leave me to conclude that it would be safe, but I don't know if there were ever any incidents with Crab-eating raccoons and waterbirds in captivity, or if there's any territorialism or aggressiveness issues that might lead them to injure the birds.
That pdf linked on Wikipedia is not a study, it is a basic account. My point, however, was why say "they almost exclusively eat crustaceans in the wild" and then immediately quote something which says otherwise? Also, why quote Wikipedia and mention the "study" linked on there, but not just look up some actual papers for yourself?
This one, for example, compiles animals and plants recorded in the diet of wild Crab-eating Raccoons (96 animal taxa including waterbirds): https://www.researchgate.net/public...urnal_feeding_behaviour_upon_a_paradoxal_frog
Aardwolf
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Even if there had never been a single report of a crab-eating raccoon eating birds in the wild, I would strongly recommend against it. There is a world of difference between how an animal interacts with other species in the wild and how it interacts with those same species in a confined space. In the described hypothetical exhibit, either the birds will completely avoid that habitat, in which case you might as well just separate it properly, or they will go in and someone will, eventually, inevitably, get predated. There's no benefit to the birds in either scenario
Yep.
Zoo Vienna mix this two species in it's south america park although it's not an aviary.
Well, if anything that would prove they go along better than I assumed
they would be fine with a nice dinner if you mix them
Capybara/Waterfowl/Arrau turtle have worked before. Though I'm uncertain about the Orinoco geese and Black-necked swans getting along.
Squirrel monkeys are very rarely mixed with sakis, but I don't think there are any problems with the mix